The H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture (Thursday - Week 2, TT19)
Thursday 9th May 2019, 17.00
(10 Merton Street Lecture Theatre, University College)
Rae Langton (Cambridge): 'Reimagining Free Speech'
The lecture this year, which is the 35th in the series, is funded by the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, will be given by Rae Langton, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College.
The lecture will be followed by a question and answer session. After the event, there will be a drinks reception in the Fellows’ Garden.
The H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture delivered in Oxford by a distinguished speaker. The lecture is named for H.L.A. Hart (1907-1992), who became Professor of Jurisprudence in Oxford in 1952 and was the author of the highly influential book 'The Concept of Law'. The lecture takes place in University College, Oxford, where Hart held his chair, and is supported by the Tanner Lectures Trust. Most of the Hart Lectures are published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
